Nottingham blogger detained in Ukraine

THE Ukrainian government has detained Nottingham-born blogger Graham Phillips.

Forest supporter Mr Phillips was working for RT, a Russian television network, on a freelance basis when he was detained by the National Guard at a checkpoint in Mariupol, in south-eastern Ukraine on Tuesday.

The television company believes Mr Phillips has been transferred to Kiev, but has had no contact from him since. The Foreign office has confirmed it is looking into the situation and stands ready to provide consular assistance.

According to a spokeswoman for RT, in his last contact Mr Phillips said: “They've taken my bulletproof jacket and my helmet, but on the other hand they haven't in any way inflicted any form of injury or any actions on my person.

Hammertone I'm with you. Anyone who thinks BBC reporting is unbiased is seriously deluded. As for Steve's comment about RT. Steve, the BBC sacked a DJ the other day because he played 'the Sun has got his Hat on' song. ONE person complained about it's lyrics! Now that is free speech. As for the Russian/Ukraine thing. Russia has always been a friend to the Ukraine. It wasn't until the EU came waving Euros at them that this trouble started. Leave them to it.

hammertone, you jump to wrong conclusions......it not the alternative perspective, I truly welcome that , it's the total lack of integrity. Doing a even a cursory amount of research on them reveals this. The truly great episode was the one in their US operation, where journalists were essentially told what to say, or fired - and a bunch were happy to be a mouthpiece as they thought they were hitting the big time. As I said, RT and reporters do not sit well together.

Yeah, I mean what a terrible organisation, 'Russia Today' is, reporting news from a, gasp, Russian perspective. We can only dream of a mainstream British news organisation reporting news from a British perspective.